By Robert Elias
ISBN-10: 0803950527
ISBN-13: 9780803950528
The Nineteen Eighties observed professional crime coverage within the usa transferring its concentration from crime and criminals to victimization and sufferers. during this thought-provoking e-book, Robert Elias evaluates the effectiveness of this shift in coverage and argues that sufferers were politically manipulated for legit objectives.
From a radical exam of sufferer laws, get-tough crime guidelines, media crime assurance, the sufferer move, and the wars on crime and medication, Elias concludes that little sufferer help has truly happened and that victimization is, in reality, escalating. He argues for a transformation within the structural resources of crime and proposes a `new tradition' which could result in considerably much less crime.
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S. legal process, have uncertain means for enforcement, and create rights conflicts with no apparent resolution (Lamborn, 1987b; "Perspectives on Proposals," 1987). They assume an adversarial process that rarely occurs and that may be ill-advised. They promote a "rights" approach to society, pitting groups against one another in a high-stakes, zero-sum game not likely to benefit vic tims, even if it is appropriate to favor them over defendants (Smart, 1989; Viano, 1987). Politics of Victim Policy and the Victims' Movement What political pattern does this reveal?
Some impose a hardship test, allow pain and suffering awards, and provide some property coverage. A few states support local nonprofit victim groups, com pensate parents of missing children and dependents of firefighters and police officers, and pay child care or for lost homes. All but two states have funded domestic violence services (for safe refuge, as well as for education, training, housing, and emergency medical, legal, and psychological support). Half the states fund sexual assault programs to meet victims' psychological and medical needs.
Only "tort reform," which limits corporate liability for victimization, provides laws that help offenders, although obviously not those who are stressed by standard law enforcement. Funding Victim programs have been funded less and less through general revenues: Only 16 states now do so. Some alternative sources are earmarked to fund par ticular programs, such as marriage license fees for domestic violence shelters; other sources are distributed more evenly. Some resources come from offenders as a fixed or variable assessment for each crime; a criminal fine surcharge; a driver's license reinstatement fee; literary profits from crime stories; forfeited crime assets; recovered racket eering damages; and wages earned in prison, on work release, or while on parole.